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Apple:
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Drives 83 Percent Revenue Growth, 95 Percent Profit Growth — Record iPhone Sales Grow 113 Percent — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 second quarter ended March 26, 2011.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's 92% earnings windfall: The bloggers nail it, the pros miss by a mile — The shortfall in iPad sales was one of the few categories the Street called correctly — Click to enlarge. — The Wall Street analysts who get paid to cover Apple (AAPL) got some things right.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Shares Up, Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadow Weak iPad — Apple posted better than expected March quarter sales and profits, with especially huge iPhone and Mac shipments. — iPad sales were much lower than expected — just 4.69 million shipped, versus expectations around 7 million.
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Inquirer, Guardian, Appolicious Advisor, MobileCrunch, eWeek, AppleInsider, Penn Olson, mocoNews, Ars Technica, Digits, TheStreet.com and MediaFile
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Most Successful Store No One Cares About: Apple's iTunes Posts a Record $1.4 Billion Quarter
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple Earnings Q2 '11: $24.67B Revenue; 3.76M Macs, 18.65M iPhones, 4.69M iPads Sold
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VatorNews, AppleInsider, MarketBeat, IBD Click, Mashable!, Bloomberg, @mblumenthal, GeekWire, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Gizmodo
Microsoft:
Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule — Key contributions to new global mobile ecosystem agreed and significant progress made on engineering of new products. — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Exclusive: Microsoft's Lees and Nokia's Oistamo Talk About Their Just-Signed Contract — Microsoft and Nokia are announcing today that the two companies have signed a definitive contract, fully committing each other to the partnership announced back in February.
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TechCrunch, BGR, TechEye, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser.com
Alex Levinson:
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery” — Today, two researchers for O'Reilly media published an article claiming discovery of a hidden tracking system on the iOS 4 operating system. Using simple techniques, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden extracted data off …
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The Loop, The Mac Security Blog and Network World
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Alasdair Allan / O'Reilly Radar:
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
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F-Secure Antivirus …, Ars Technica, New York Times, willclarke.net, memeburn, Cult of Mac, TUAW, Softpedia News, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, BGR, Pocket-lint, greg hughes, @freecloud, Cellular.Sherlock, SocialTimes.com, CNET News, Network World, App Advice, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Bits, MacHackPC, PC World, PC Magazine, Gadget Lab, Intuitive.com, Latest Voice,IMS 2.0 news, Geek.com and Gear Live
Matt Haughey / A Whole Lotta Nothing:
Ev's assholishness is greatly exaggerated — There's been a bunch of stories lately about Ev Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter upon the occasion of him leaving Twitter to do his own thing. Some are outright calling him an a**hole. This Business Insider story of Noah Glass …
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Amazon EC2 troubles bring down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite and more — The popularity of Amazon's cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely.
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TechCrunch, SAI, NewEnterprise and Softpedia News, Thanks:zee
Peter Rojas / gdgt:
Amazon's tablet is coming, but what will it be? — It's something of an open secret that Amazon is working on an Android tablet and I am 99% certain they are having Samsung build one for them. Does the world really need yet another tablet? If it were anyone else, I'd say no …
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Engadget, PhoneArena, SAI, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Electronista, BGR, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The Next Internet Breakthrough As They Did About The Moonwalk — Obama spent a considerable amount of time preaching to the choir at today's Facebook Town Hall event, first bringing up Intel founder and Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove as an example …
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Bits, Digital Trends, Computerworld, BBC, Mashable!, SAI, All Facebook, Fast Company, @facebook, ReadWriteWeb, @dangillmor, Tech Trader Daily, @vitanga, @mkapor, @scottbudman, @maggieshiels, @scottmcgrew, @alexia, SAI, @mhelft, @shervin, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, @larrymagid, PC Magazine, CBS News, @swildstrom, @larrymagid, @benparr, @sgaudin, @kessler, Friending Facebook Blog, @timoreilly, @scottmcgrew, @thekenyeung, @ceciliakang, CNET News, Pulse2 and TechFlash
Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated — When Gawker launched an aggressive redesign back in early February, the tech blogs were waiting to see what would happen. How would readers respond? (The assumption was that the reaction would be negative …
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SAI, @apatrizio and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Luis Merlos / BerryReview.com:
Hulu Wasted Little Time to Block the PlayBook — The PlayBook released just yesterday and it looks like Hulu did not like the idea of allowing PlayBook users to stream media from it. Today Nikolaus excited to get his PlayBook checked to see if Hulu worked and to his surprise Hulu has already blocked the PalyBook.
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CrackBerry.com blogs, SocialTimes.com, TechSpot and BlackBerryandBeyond.com
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple pulled Facebook integration from iOS 4, Media Stream is its replacement — Out of everything revealed in yesterday's white iPhone 4 prototype leak, a small settings pane titled ‘Facebook’ stuck to us the most. The first thing that came to mind was that iOS 4 was supposed to include some Facebook integration.
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SAI, Electronista, IntoMobile and App Advice, Thanks:tc_geeks
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Curve Touch to be revealed at BlackBerry World; June-July launch — Here's some interesting information for you BlackBerry lovers out there. We finally have some firm details surrounding the GSM counterpart to the Malibu, which will be a CDMA Curve Touch launching late fall.
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SlashPhone, TmoNews and Know Your Cell
Electronista:
Foursquare co-founder makes unusual stop at Apple — Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley drew some attention Wednesday with a check-in at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. The post itself gave no clues but saw him check in at the same time as Holger Luedorf, the company's key organizer …
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SlashGear and 9 to 5 Mac
Popular Mechanics:
Should Cops Be Allowed to Scan Your Phone During a Traffic Stop? — In Michigan, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint alleging that Michigan State Police officers used forensic cellphone analyzers to snoop in drivers' cellphones during routine traffic stops.
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Ubergizmo, The Register, Crave, The Tech Herald … and PC World
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon activates 2.2 million iPhones in first quarter, 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts — Verizon delivered better-than-expected first quarter results and gave its tally of iPhone activations. The company activated 2.2 million iPhones in the first quarter and 500,000 4G devices, including 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts.
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MediaMemo, GigaOM, SAI, BGR, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires and MacStories
comScore, Inc.:
In Europe, Apple iOS Ecosystem Twice the Size of Android When Accounting for Mobile Phones, Tablets and Other Connected Media Devices — comScore Releases First European Data on Media Tablet Users from MobiLens Service — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Android Community
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Sites Retool for Google Effect — Burned by Google Inc.'s recent changes to its search formula, small businesses are experimenting with strategies to recover lost Web traffic while seeking out new ways to generate sales—some even scaling back daily operations.
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SAI
Neowin.net:
Exclusive: Chrome notebooks confirmed to be released June/July — To be sold as a subscription. — You may or may not have seen the news about the Google Chrome production notebooks floating around the web today. Ariotech reports that “Google product manager Sundar Pichai said …
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Computerworld, Chrome OS Site, TechSpot, TeleRead, Electronic Pulp, thechromesource, Ubergizmo and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:neowinsteve
